Radio station, transmitting station, and frequency band sharing method

• US 8,700,078 B2
• Filed: 11/02/2012
• Issued: 04/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Harada, Hiroki, Fujii, Hiromasa, Asai, Takahiro, Ohya, Tomoyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): HSIEH, PING Y
• Application Number:
  US13/667,324
• Publication Number:
  US 20130059616A1
• Time in Patent Office: 529 Days
• Field of Search: 455/447, 455/450, 4554521- 2, 455/453, 455/509
• US Class Current: 455/509
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/14 Spectrum sharing arrangements between different networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/243 taking into account interferences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

The invention has a step where a transmitting station in a second radio communication system determines whether transmission of a second radio communication system signal using a shared frequency band is possible or not based on load information of a first radio communication system broadcast from a base station in the first radio communication system, a step where the transmitting station in the second radio communication system calculates predicted interference power caused in a receiving station in the first radio communication system by the second radio communication system signal transmitted using the shared frequency band, and a step where the base station in the first radio communication system increases an allowable interference level of a first radio communication system signal transmitted using the shared frequency band based on the predicted interference power broadcast from the transmitting station in the second radio communication system.

Claims

1. A radio station for controlling an interfered system signal transmitted using a shared frequency band which an interfered system uses in priority to an interfering system, comprising:

a broadcast section that broadcasts load information of the interfered system to a transmitting station in the interfering system;

an acquisition section that receives predicted interference power, from the transmitting station that calculates the predicted interference power caused in a receiving station in the interfered system by an interfering system signal transmitted using the shared frequency band from the transmitting station;

an allowable interference level control section that increases an allowable interference level of the interfered system signal transmitted using the shared frequency band, based on the predicted interference power acquired in the acquisition section; and

wherein the allowable interference level control section increases transmission power of the interfered system signal or decreases a transmission rate of the interfered system signal, so that signal quality of the interfered system signal can be maintained even when the receiving station in the interfered system receives the predicted interference power by the interfering signal.

2. The radio station according to claim 1, further comprising:

a frequency band switching section that switches a frequency band of the interfered system signal from the shared frequency band to a dedicated frequency band of the interfered system,

wherein the acquisition section acquires priority information of the interfered system signal and the interfering system signal, and reception quality information of the interfered system signal, in addition to the predicted interference power, and

the frequency band switching section switches the frequency band of the interfered system signal from the shared frequency band to the dedicated frequency band, based on at least one of the priority information and the reception quality information.

3. The radio station according to claim 2, wherein the acquisition section acquires load information of the interfering system, in addition to the predicted interference power, the priority information and the reception quality information, and

the frequency band switching section switches the frequency band of the interfered system signal from the shared frequency band to the dedicated frequency band, based on at least one of the priority information, the reception quality information, and the load information of the interfering system.

4. The radio station according to claim 1, further comprising:

an adjacent cell interference control section that decreases interference power caused in the receiving station in the interfered system by an adjacent cell, based on the predicted interference power acquired in the acquisition section.